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The Nordic diaspora may refer to:

Old diaspora

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Viking and Old Norse

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"Scandinavian diaspora" during this era refers to explorations, conquests, emigrations, and pioneering settlements during the Viking expansion.[1] Scrutinising the Viking Age through the lens of settlement offers a distinct perspective, highlighting their cultural profile distinct from their predatory reputation.[2]

Modern diaspora

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The term "Nordic diaspora" is also used to describe more recent emigrations and emigrants originating in one or more of the Nordic countries.[3][4][5]

Swedish diaspora

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Main article: Swedish diaspora

Swedish diaspora communities include:

Finnish diaspora

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Main article: Finnish diaspora

People emigrated to the United States, Canada, Ghana, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Italy, Ireland, United Kingdom, Sweden, Brazil and Argentina.[6][7] They have also started Utopian communities in places including Australia, Brazil, Paraguay, France, Cuba, and Sierra Leone.

Finnish diaspora communities include:

Danish diaspora

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Main articles: Danes § diaspora, and Greenlandic Inuit

Danish diaspora communities include:

Icelandic diaspora

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Main article: Icelandic diaspora

Icelandic diaspora communities include:

Norwegian diaspora

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Main article: Norwegian diaspora

Norwegian diaspora communities include:

The first modern Norwegian settlement in the United States was Norwegian Ridge, in what is now Spring Grove, Minnesota.[8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Heather, Peter (4 March 2010). Empires and barbarians: the fall of Rome and the birth of Europe. Oxford University Press US. p. 497. ISBN 978-0-19-973560-0. Archived from the original on 3 November 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
  2. ^ Abrams, Lesley (19 January 2012). "Diaspora and Identity in the Viking Age". Early Medieval Europe. 20 (1): 17–38.
  3. ^ Hammill, Faye. "Martha Ostenso, Literary History, and the Scandinavian Diaspora". #196 (Spring 2008) Diasporic Women's Writing. Canadian Literature. Archived from the original on 7 December 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2011. ...the Scandinavian diaspora disrupts nationalist literary histories by crossing political and cultural boundaries between America and Canada.
  4. ^ Campbell, James T. (31 August 2009). Race, Nation, and Empire in American History. ReadHowYouWant.com. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-8078-5828-8. Archived from the original on 3 November 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2020. My story begins with a fragment in the history of the Scandinavian diaspora. About 1886, a young woman named Marie Hansen left Denmark, displaced by the after-effects of the Dano-Prussian War, and settled in Chicago.
  5. ^ Lien, Marianne E; Marit Melhuus. Holding worlds together: ethnographies of knowing and belonging. Berghahn Books. p. 13. ISBN 1-84545-250-X. Archived from the original on 3 November 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2020. Lund's Scandinavian diaspora informants from the USA (Chapter 4) re-embed themselves through recounting their genealogies.
  6. ^ Karni, Michael G. (1981). Finnish Diaspora: United States. Multicultural History Society of Ontario.
  7. ^ Karni, Michael G. (1981). Finnish Diaspora: Canada, South America, Africa, Australia and Sweden. Multicultural History Society of Ontario.
  8. ^ Chad Muller (2002). Spring Grove: Minnesota's first Norwegian settlement. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-1949-9. Spring Grove: Minnesota's First Norwegian Settlement is a tribute to the state's earliest Norwegian emigrants, and to generations of Norwegian Americans who have made this small farming community amongst deep valleys, fjord-like bluffs, and ...
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